Open Thread: Things that Should be Movies

I was thinking we could have a movie theme for a little while. So for today, what’s a story that you think should be made into a movie? Or, what are some stories that you think should be made into movies?

Herstories! I demand epic biopics of Ada Lovelace, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Margaret Corbin, and Sacajawea. For starters. (Oh, you don’t know who all of those women are? Crack some books, boys.) And I’m taking big, sweeping, cast-of-thousands type stuff, the kind of movies that have critics and cinephiles predicting Oscars even before the first day of shooting.

FiredrakeOctober 4, 2013 at 7:43 am

(Bother, “blockquote” isn’t recognised here. Those last two paragraphs are from the site to which I linked.)

Back in the 1980’s I thought it would be cool if someone told a modern day version of the story of Abelard and Heloise, with Peter Abelard, called Pete, being a guru who set up a spa/wellness/therapy center with the help of his wife Eloise (also the name of the movie), who then basically ran it for him after he divorced her. Her daughter tries to get Eloise into a Co-Dependent’s Anonymous program, leading to further adventures that comprise most of the plot.

I have a truly weird imagination.

(Of course, now that I note the first post, that would be a film about a woman with a woman’s problem.)